A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence of proof is not proof of absence.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Remorse begets reform.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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